New film series on art opens with Manet exhibition

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"Manet" is the first title in "Exhibition," a film series showcasing the world's greatest fine-art exhibitions created for cinema audiences and shown via satellite.

In Central Florida, the film will screen Thursday, April 11, at Cinemark Festival Bay, AMC Altamonte Mall and Waterford Lakes Stadium 20. Showtime is 7:30 p.m.

The "Exhibition" series will offer an opportunity for audiences worldwide to experience the finest masterpieces of art from the world's foremost galleries that otherwise would only be seen locally. The series aims to allow art lovers of all ages to enjoy, marvel, delight and more deeply understand the works of some of history's most beloved painters.

In London, the critics are raving about the Royal Academy of Arts' Manet exhibit, the subject of Thursday's film.

The Times critic said: "A rare opportunity to see some of the finest works of the artist. ***** five stars". The Daily Telegraph raved: "An unforgettable show! The shifting ground between portraiture and genre is explored in all its complexity in a ground-breaking new exhibition. **** five stars!" And The Independent called the exhibition is "unmissable."

French painter Edouard Manet (1832–1883) was a key figure in art's movement from Realism to Impressionism.

The exhibition consists of more than 50 works; among them are portraits of Manet's most frequent sitters and scenes from everyday life revealing Manet's forward-thinking, modern approach.

Manet's portraiture has never been explored in exhibition form, despite it forming around half of his artistic output. He painted his family, friends and the literary, political and artistic figures of the day, giving life not only to his subjects but also to Parisian society. The exhibition includes portraits of his wife Suzanne Leenhoff, along with luminaries of the period such as Antonin Proust, Émile Zola and Stéphane Mallarmé. (More on the exhibit itself at http://www.royalacademy.org.uk)

The cinema event also reveals exclusive behind-the-scenes moments of the exhibition's preparation, which normally go unseen by the public, and interweaves a detailed, superbly crafted biography of Manet and 19th-century Paris. Host Tim Marlow and special guests look at the craft of one of the all-time great artists.

For more information on the film and upcoming subjects such as Edvard "The Scream" Munch, go to ExhibitionOnScreen.com